Slobodan Praljak

Slobodan Praljak (2 January 1945-29 November 2017) was a Lieutenant-General of the Croatian army and the Croatian Defense Council of Herzeg-Bosnia. He fought in the Croatian War of Independence and the Bosnian War, and he committed suicide in The Hague, Netherlands in 2017 after being found guilty of war crimes committed against Muslim Bosniaks.

Biography
Slobodan Praljak was born in Capljina, Independent State of Croatia in 1945, and he became an electrical engineer in 1970. Praljak went on to become an engineer, film and theater director, businessman, and author, and Praljak and several other Zagreb artists and intellectuals joined the Croatian army at the start of the Croatian War of Independence in 1991. After the Sarajevo Agreement of 1992, he became a Major-General, and he served as Chief-of-Staff of the Croatian Defense Council of Herzeg-Bosnia during the Bosnian War. He destroyed Mostar's 16th-century bridge in November 1993, causing disproportionate damage to the Muslim civilian population. On 5 April 2004, he was transferred to the ICTY tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, where he stood trial for war crimes. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and he lost a court appeal in November 2017. On 29 November 2017, he ingested poison in front of the judge and in the courtroom, and he died in a hospital shortly after.